Pepper Cory
203 First Street
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
USA

Studio telephone and fax:
(252) 726-4117

Home telephone:
(252) 728-5110

Email at studio only: pepcory@mail.clis.com

 

Biographical Information

I have been a quiltmaker since 1972 when I saw an antique quilt at a rummage sale, purchased it for $1.00, and on the way home fell in love! From that moment I wanted to learn to make quilts and sought out quiltmakers, usually elderly ladies, who could teach me the art. Ever since I've been collecting quilts, making quilts myself, writing books about them, designing needlework tools, and sharing my love of quilting by teaching and lecturing.

 

Pepper quilting circa 1978

For seven years (1976-1983) I owned a quilt shop called Culpepper's Quilts in East Lansing, Michigan. Teaching travels have taken me to 45 of the 50 states, Canada, England, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.

I've written articles that have appeared in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Traditional Quiltworks, American Patchwork & Quilting, and Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts.

I've written six books:

• Quilting Designs from the Amish
• Quilting Designs from Antique Quilts
• Crosspatch (re-issued as Multi-Block Quilts)
• Happy Trails (re-issued as 65 Drunkard's Path Variations)
• Co-authored Signature Quilts with Susan McKelvey
• The latest book is Mastering Quilt Marking
• I design several lines of stencils for marking quilts as well as painting stencils for home decorating that are manufactured by StenSource International.
  My foundation piecing stencils are by Graphic Impressions, and charm quilt and Drunkard's Path templates by Wright's.
• Since the fall of 2000 I have been designing cotton prints, first for Michael Miller Fabrics and now for Telegraph Road Studio.

  What do I do when I'm not quilting? I read history and poetry, go to the gym, collect odd things like anodized aluminum ware from the 50s, and walk on the beach picking up shells. In 1996 my husband Rod and I moved to North Carolina. We love the beauty of our coastal home and share our house with two lucky cats who double as doorstops, bookends, and quilt testers.